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THE MORRIS PE TENS (20 PHOTOJJTNO WA SHINGTON. D. c v 4 im @Tarts i u THOMAS I-I. FLYNN, OF VVINOI-IESTER, ILLINOIS.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Iatent No. 567,538, dated September 8, 1896. Application filed July Z, 1896. Serial No. 597,881. (No model.) i

To all whom t man concern: to the transverse bar G and are substantially Be it known that I, THOMAS I-I. FLYNN, a one-fourth the length of the sides of the citizen of the lUnited States, residing at Winframe,and they divide the space at the outside 5 chester, in the county of Scott and State of of the transverse bar 6. The inner links3 are 5 Illinois, have invented a new and useful Depivoted to the outer ends of the marking-bars 7 vice for Grooving or Marking Artificial Ice, and 8 and serve to groove the adjacent edges `f which the following is a specification. of the cake of ice, and while they can be The invention relates to improvements in dispensed with, yet they support the sides of 6o levices for grooving ormarking artificial ice. the frame and strengthen the device. The

The object of the present invention is to longitudinal and transverse bars which diprovide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient vide the space inclosed by the sides of the device adapted to be placed in a can during frame may be arranged in any suitable manthe manufacture of artificial ice and capable ner, but when cakes of ice weighing two hun- 65 0f grooving the opposite faces thereof to en dred pounds are manufactured, which is the able a cake of ice to be readily cnt in pieces usual size, the transverse bar 5 is arranged of predetermined sizes to facilitate handling to enable the cake to be divided in halves, so and to obviate the necessity of using scales that a piece weighing one hundred pounds in dispensing ice from a wagon. may be readily separated from the cake. 7o The invention consists in the construction The groove formed by the transverse bar 6 zo and novel combination and arrangement of enables one-fourth of a cake to be readily parts hereinafter fully described,illustrated severed, and the longitudinal bars are arin the accompanying drawings, and pointed ranged to divide the remaining quarter of the out in the claims hereto appended. cake into one teircent piece of ice and three 75 In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective five-cent pieces of ice.

View of an ice-grooving device constructed After the grooves are formed in the cake in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is of ice the parts divided by the grooves may a longitudinal sectional view. be readily severed byablow from an ice-pick,

Like numerals of reference designate corand there will be no wastewincuttinga cake, 8o responding parts in both the figures of the and it will render the use of a saw unnecesdrawings. sary.` This manner of dividing a cake of ice l designates a frame composed of rectanwill also facilitate the handling of ice and gular sides 2, connected at one end by links enable one man to dispense it instead of two, 3, and supported by a pivoted bar 4, which and as it obviates the necessity of using prevents the sides of the frame from swingscales much time will be saved.

3 5 ing inward toward each other and collapsing. The supporting-bar 4, whichis pivoted at The outer links`3 are pivoted at their termione end to one of the sides of the frame, is nals to the adjacent ends of the side bars of provided at its other end with a series of the rectangular sides, which are adapted to shoulders or teeth forming a ratchet and 9o be readily swung outward from a cake of ice adapted to engage the other side of the frame 4o to remove the frame therefrom, and the into hold the two sides separated. This supner links 3 are pivoted to the adjacent ends porting-bar will prevent the frame from col- Of marking bars or strips, hereinafter delapsing during the manufacture of ice, and scribed. The space inclosed by the rectanafter a cake has been manufactured the sides guiar sides of the frame is similarly divided of the frame may be readily swung outward 45 by transverse marking strips or bars 5 and to separate them from the ice.

6 and longitudinal marking bars or strips 7 It will be seen that the device for marking and 8. The transverse bar or strip 5 is cenor grooving ice is exceedingly simple and in trally arranged and divides the space within expensive in construction, that it is adapted roo the frame in halves, and the other transverse to be readily manufactured, and that it will 5o strip or bar 6 divides the space between the facilitate handling ice and will obviate the transverse bar 5 and the links 3. The longinecessity of using scales in dispensing the tudinally-disposed bars 7 and 8 are secured same.

Changes in the form, proportion, and minor details of construction may be resorted to Without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention, such as arranging the dividing strips or bars to groovea cake of ice for forming pieces of any desired size.

Vhat I claim isl. A device of the class described, comprising a frame composed of two rectangular sides spaced apart and hingedly connected at one end of the frame and adapted to swing outward, means for supportingthe sides of the other end of the frame, and dividing strips or bars carried by the rectangular sides, forming rectangularspaces and adapted to groove the opposite faces of a cake of ice, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. A device of the class described, comprising a frame composed of two rectangular sides, links pivotally connected to the sides at one end of the frame, a supporting-bar arranged at the other end of the frame, pivoted to one of the sides and provided with teeth for engaging the other sides, and marking strips or bars arranged Within the sides of the frame, disposed longitudinally and transversely thereof, and adapted to groove the opposite faces of a cake of ice, substantially as described.

A device of the class described, comprising a pair of frames provided with marking bars or strips forming rectangular spaces and adapted to groove a cake of ice during the manufacture thereof, link-bars spacing and hinging the frames at one end of the device, and means for supporting and spacing the frames at the opposite end of the device, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signaturein the presence of two Witnesses.

THOMAS H. FLYNN. -Witnesses:

E. R. WATERS, C. HARTUNG. 

